It's not always easy to be a billionaire. In the United States, resentment against the top 1%, with their immense share of national income, helped spur the Occupy Wall Street movement and its slogan "We are the 99%." And that resentment is even more intense for the one-tenth of 1% who are on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans and earn more than millions of families … [Read more...] about How the Rich Can Help Poor Countries
Macroeconomics and Finance
Seating Business and Government at the Table
Businesspeople seek as much as influence as possible over their government's productive development policies. From many points of view, this makes sense. Company executives experience firsthand the structural problems that prevent them from serving their clients better, accessing new markets and increasing productivity. They know where the information asymmetries lie. If they … [Read more...] about Seating Business and Government at the Table
Opportunity: Accepting Applications for Prestigious Research Fellowship
The Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is accepting applications for its Research Fellow Program. The program was created to bolster the department in providing research to other IDB divisions as well as governments, universities and opinion makers throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Research fellows work in teams dedicated to issues … [Read more...] about Opportunity: Accepting Applications for Prestigious Research Fellowship
Can Women Break the Glass Ceiling in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Over the last 20 years, Latin Amerand the Caribbean has made large strides to close the gender gap in education and employment. Since the early 1990s, more women than men in the region have been enrolled in school at the secondary and tertiary levels. And today women make up more than 40% of the region's labor force despite the stereotypes that make those gains … [Read more...] about Can Women Break the Glass Ceiling in Latin America and the Caribbean?
MDBs: Constraining Times
By Myriam Escobar and Andrew Powell In July 2015, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), together with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) committed to extend more than $400 billion in financing to developing countries over the next three years for longer term development aims. They also agreed to work more closely with private and public sector partners to mobilize the … [Read more...] about MDBs: Constraining Times